Looks like I found this one a little late… maybe next year! Picture taken from junie-moon.

Sue McKinley, last year’s “Top Sales Agent” for Alain Pinel Realtors, is watching the trends and has offered some words as to why now might be a good time for you to buy. Sue says, “Bay area home sales are up 45% over 2007 and the median home price fell to $400,000. There have been [...]

Reader, Shannon, has a master bedroom that is currently in transition. She had just purchased new bedding and pillows and is looking to tie it all together. You can see the room as-is in the picture below. Here are my observations: I love the matching nightstands and lamps on either side, but the lamps are [...]

I love this fall decorating from m+m=l. I love that she’s taking the commercial out of the holidays – I think it’s beautiful!

I love a chaos of colors and patterns in a room, but it’s important to know what should be flashy and what should be subtle. Shannon has a gorgeous new house that she is trying to make her own. The living room is ceramic tile, so she wanted a big rug to make it more [...]

Somebody please put me out of my misery, and buy this rug. I love it, but it doesn’t match anything I own, nor do I have such a need. But it is too cute to be left on the shelf. Please buy it, put it under your black lacquer dining room set with fuchsia painted [...]

Shelley has a beautiful house with warm colors and rustic accents. Her dining room, however, has been pushed to the bottom of the list. Below are pictures of the dining room before she purchased the home, and then its current state. She had a cut-out window created in one wall to open the room up [...]

does it take to hang a group of pictures? My husband, sister and mom helped me hang the pictures above my sofa, and here is how we did it: Picture groups are a great way to fill a big wall, save money on art, hang pieces that mean something to you, and bring color into [...]

My hallway was looking pretty boring (as most hallways do) and my friend Shannon pointed out that we didn’t have any pictures of us hanging in the house. (Anybody else not like pictures of yourself?) So I decided to make a picture wall at the end of our itty bitty hall. I took frames that [...]

My extremely talented mother made me some gorgeous curtains for my much-neglected guest bedroom. This teeny-tiny room is home to a queen-sized bed, an adorable re-vamped vintage dresser, and every other posession I own that I’m not quite sure what to do with. Well, her beautiful drapes have left me with no option: I must [...]